No employer shall require or permit any person to work, nor shall any person work, in a building, room, basement, cellar place or vehicle occupied or used for the production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale, distribution or transportation of meat, fish, poultry or other foods of any kind intended for human consumption who is afflicted or affected with any venereal disease, smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, yellow fever, tuberculosis, consumption, bubonic plague, Asiatic cholera, leprosy, trachoma, typhoid fever, epidemic dysentery, measles, mumps, German measles, whooping cough, chicken pox or any other infectious or contagious disease, or who shows the condition known as the “carrier state” of any such contagious disease.
(1995 Code, § 7.12.300)